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At what point does most commercial software shift exclusively to server-side rendering or streaming? Are we going to be vibe coding GTA 6 by January 2027?

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They’re gonna turn Stadia back on. Who can afford personal graphics cards and memory these days?

Who can afford to service game streaming when those GPUs could be used for LLM inference / training?

Google. Famously, even. (Hint: TPUs)

Microsoft are raising prices on their own streaming platform, though: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-clo...

and putting time limits on the subscription. Not enough to complete a single player game in a month at the highest tier

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